yusef salaam, welcome to hardtalk.ake us back and tell us what happened on the night of the 19th of april in 1989. what happened was young people hanging out in the park, a park that they looked at as their backyard, and all of a sudden, we fast forward to the evening and then the next day and we were accused of raping a white woman in central park, a rape that had not been seen by anyone of us and we were vilified from the beginning because we were looked at as criminals because of the colour of our skin and not the content of our character. they quickly made a case against us and said that we were the ones who did this and as you can imagine, we were horrified as we began to be run over by the spike rails ofjustice and then as we look into the future, 13 years go by, and then the truth comes out and it shatters everything that the system had made people believe and yet even to this day still this cloud of suspicion that we had actually done this crime when we had not. let's talk to that night, because it was an extra

julian a son jesse faces the trial of his life in london later in this program we'll speak to use of salaam one of the central park 5 whose wrongful conviction that donald trump to argue for the death penalty but 1st here is julian assange speaking presciently about the power of the black lives matter movement in one of the many interviews he did for this program in 216 black lives matter. movement has come upon. us by the hard work practice but the core of what is driving it is our footage that is undeniable that if you want it's not a matter of the you know do you believe the police do believe friends of a person who are strong witnesses it is undeniable footage of exactly what has occurred is not only stimulating parts of the black community i think the black community is on the understood this all too long. but it's stimulating enormous acceptance and sympathy outside the market because the argument is proven a son speaking to us in 2016 after being granted asylum in the ecuadorian embassy in london the un special rapporteur on torture claims the founder of wiki leaks has been tortured

. >> i am the creator of video game salaam. >> salaam is very personal to me.ying the game, you're putting yourself in the shoes of someone that can bring global communities together. >> i was born as my family was fleeing south sudan. i settled in northern uganda, i spent over 22 years in a refugee camp. >> it became a permanent home for us. we could find aid. all you need is to survive. >> we're looking at approximately 80 million forcibly displaced people in the world today, that number is higher than we have ever seen. we're talking about people who are really running for their lives. they're seeking safe ground. >> salaam is an high tension running game. the purpose is to take a refugee to a peaceful environment. when you buy water in the game, you're actually buying water for somebody in the refugee camp. >> what the game does, it provides people engaging in that game an opportunity to contribute, actual relief and assistance to refugees. >> his game is going to bring people that are not necessarily a traditional audience for messages about refugees, it's

join us after the break as we speak to a man who knows all about wrongful detention talk to use of salaam one of the exonerated central park 5 you spent almost 7 years in juvenile detention for a crime he didn't commit and whose story is dramatized in netflix's award winning show when they see us. on the pandemic no certainly no border to nationalities. as america. we took a back seat. to. judge a. commentary this is the sentence. we can do better we should. everyone is contributing each of their own way but we also know that this crisis will not go on forever the challenges created with the response has been massive so many good people are helping us. it makes us feel very proud that we are in it together. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy on sunday shouldn't let it be an arms race in. spearing dramatic development only i'm going to exist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. i feel. you just have to fly between 2 things and as fast as you can. do much any closer to the producers would push for the

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>> i am the ceo of the new game and i am creator of video salaam.n you are playing game, you are actually putting yourself in the shoes of somebody. we realize that games are a very powerful tool that can bring our global communities together. i was born on the way as my family was fleeing south sudan. in northern uganda, i spent over 22 years in the refugee camp. the only thing we could do was wake up in the morning to go and find foods to eat because all you need is to survive. >> we are looking at approximately 80 million forcibly displaced people in the world today and that number is higher than we have ever seen. what we are talking about are people who are really running for their lives. they are seeking safe ground. >> salaam is a game and your focus of player is to take a refugee from a war-torn country to a peaceful environment. when you buy water in the game, you are actually buying water for somebody in the refugee camp. >> it provides people engaging in that game an opportunity to contribute actual relief and assistance to refugees. the

saddam who do salaam has not seen his wife in a deal for over 2 years. looked free turn 2 in all this 2019 and saddam was desperate to spend with him in australia i'm totally broke actually elect financially mentally physically i used to be a strong big guy but this thing to totally ruin my life. you know that. this kid that. he looks like both of you know he looks like me. yeah those. after 8 months are trying to secure a story in citizenship for his baby saddam and his lawyer finally picked up loot fees passband finally his. citizen passport he's got a. big stick. saddam hopes that he'll be able to use it soon and that the dealer can come with him. so. it's not dog. you know. it's you doing everything again to get to that but. the chinese ambassador to australia was invited to be interviewed for this program but he declined however in june $2900.00 he appeared at an australia china business council event in canberra for many reasons but underlined china's magnificent achievement. the most fundamental one is that i'm swerving but here it is to the leade

salaam means peace and it's really personal to me.you are playing a game you're putting yourself in the shoes of somebody. you realize that it can bring all the great communities together. i was born in the way as my family was fleeing south sudan. at the center in northern uganda, i spent over 22 years in the refugee camp. it became a permanent home for us. the only thing we could do was wake up in the morning to go find food to eat because like all you need is just to survive. >> we're looking at approximately 80 million forcefully displaced people in the world today that number is higher than we have ever seen. what were talking about are people running for their lives. they're seeking safe ground. >> salaam is -- the focus of the player is to take the refugee to the peaceful environment. when you buy water in the game, you're actually buying water for somebody in the refugee camp. >> what the game does is it provides people engaging in that game an opportunity to contribute actual relief and assistance to refugees. >> the game is

and salaam bells in the head going and you just think any self there is no cure for this in it is going to be left in a wheelchair i remember screaming so we're out. the front of the books. since then nick's been plagued by fatigue migraines blurred vision pain and numbness in his legs and dread about what still lives in store to get your current policy in a week's time he's supposed to fly so moscow for a stem cell transplant a treatment that halts the progression of the n.h.s. in about 80 to 90 percent of cases like nics is going to be. so there are very and. there over there only one friday. it involves chemotherapy which will suppress his immune system amis is an autoimmune disease which means nick's immune system doesn't just defend him from infections it attacks healthy cells. no one knows why it happens but m.s. damages the protective coating on nerves in your brain and spine cause and lesions nick has more than 50 these distorted messages from the brain to the rest of the body sometimes leading to severe disability. there's no known cure. for stem cell treatment blood to stem ce

. >> i am a creator of video games, salaam.u can bring communication together. salaam means peace. i was born in a way as my family was fleeing south sudan. i spent over 22 years in the refugee camp. it became home for us. we wake up in the morning to find food to eat. all you need is to survive. >> we are looking at approximately 80 million displaced people in the world today. that number is higher than we have ever seen. while we are talking about or people who are running for their lives, they're seeking safe ground. >> tayou are buying water for somebody in the refugee camp. >> what the game does is it provides people engaging in that game an opportunity to contribute actual relief and assistance to refugees. >> his game is going to bring people that are not necessarily a traditional audience for messages about refugees. it is going to bring them into the room. they're going to be learning this at a younger age and a game changer. >> i talk to game developers all the time. they want to create better experiences for people.

story's been dramatized in netflix's award winning show when they see us one of the 5 talked to use of salaam joins me now from atlanta georgia his new young adult novel punching the air coauthored by u.b.s. the boy tells the story through verse of one boy's struggle against the u.s. justice system it's out now yousef thanks so much for joining us on ongoing underground as they said in part one we heard about the julian a sandwich case a lot of people think he's innocent and we see international all these different n.g.o.s fighting for him i know you've been asked the question before but how does anyone cope with being in a maximum security prison knowing they're innocent. no the biggest challenge just sits try to figure out how to keep your mind free even though your body's in bondage as we know where your head goes your body follows and so as we begin to look at you know the opportunities even through now we've been experiencing coburn 1900 world and some people have been going out of their mind and it's because of this and the greatest thing that we can do is try to channel our inner g. me

just after midnight in dar es salaam in amman you're in moscow my names you know me when you're welcome to our to international our top story. hostilities between armenia and azerbaijan have continued to a 3rd day in what's the worst flare up of an old territorial dispute since a truce was agreed a quarter of a century ago violence erupted between the nations on sunday but both laying claim to the. region that show you some exclusive pictures filmed by an r t crew in a car or bike you can see part of a drone done by armenian armed forces during the fighting our crew is so far the only media granted access to the area by the armenian authorities were shut down of sent us this report from the site filmed with a night vision come. right now we're between the positions of the armenian army which is over there and the as they are by joining forces which are stationed right over this hill and here is the debris of a massive unmanned drone that was shot down by the armenian air defense this is the main piece but not the only one in fact there's still a distinctive stench of burning up in the a

julian a son jesse faces the trial of his life in london later in this program we'll speak to use of salaam one of the central park 5 whose wrongful conviction that donald trump to argue for the death penalty but 1st here is joining us on speaking presciently about the power of the black lives matter movements in one of the many interviews he did for this program in 2016 black lives matter. movement has come up . yes by hard work practice but the. core of what is driving it is footage that is undeniable that if you want it's not a matter of the you know do you believe the police do you believe friends of a person who are strong witnesses because undeniable footage of exactly what has occurred is not only stimulating parts of the black community i mean the black community is on the understood this all too long. but it stimulating enormous acceptance and sympathy outside the market because the argument is proving a son speaking to us in 2016 after being granted asylum in the ecuadorian embassy in london the un special rapporteur on torture claims the founder of wiki leaks has been tortured by

salaam other than a massacre and have brought dozens of palestinians were shot and killed by a settler during morning prayers on the cable of the patriarchs of the. at 5 am on friday february 25th dr by ruth goldstein a religious settler dressed in his army uniform grabbed an uzi submachine gun and opened fire on the people praying at the cave of the patriarchs my mom. 31 people were murdered during the massacre which ended only when goldstein himself was killed. along with. the news spread quickly and the violent riots broke out across the entire occupied territories. israeli soldiers opened fire on the protesters killing 9 palestinians and injuring hundreds more. flavor of the holy move goldstein quickly established a fan base among the settlers hundreds attended his funeral home and many of them praised him as a hero and a saint oh no no no nothing else makes it show me urged rabin to clear hebrew and settlers it would be a brave move that could restore the palestinians trust in the peace process. but the army generals claim that vacating the settlers from hebrew one could cause a c

in 2016 saddam who do salaam went back to singeing to marry his girlfriend the dealer. after their honeymoon in the united states and turkey. felt pregnant. positive this she was pregnant and that and the best help from this moment for me. and there was actually i'm going to read to her the i'm going to have like i'm going to have baby like. lois and. saddam returned to australia in early 2017 for work while nat villa waited in singeing for her spouse visa to be approved. but then beijing suddenly launched its mass re-education campaign and xinjiang. hardily she called me our government start taking people's passport. the. singeing effectively became a large open air prison with severe limitations on freedom of movement on weekends and other minorities as well as invasive surveillance of almost every aspect of their daily lives. the 1st reports began to emerge of weak years being rounded up and detained in camps. in the community we heard stories of people's direct messages of their family members were taken there one was panicking there one was 20 find out whether they

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raymond santana, yusef salaam, antron mccray.re finally through... >> there's a rush to judge because there's a rush to solve the crime. >> narrator: yusef salaam's arrest was at the center of the storm. >> we became what was wrong. we became expendable. >> trump saw this classic tabloid story. he saw his role and his position instinctively. he knew in his heart that those guys wd. >> narrator: as in so many othet areas, his ae towas race was shaped by his father. >> he was being raised by a father who was discriminating against african americans in the very first apartments with the trump name. he wasaised in a setting where the people of color and the black people that he saw were peop who were working for him-- it was his father's driver. >> they we just a very racist family, you know. pele of color, you know, african americans in particular, jewish people, womewere all considered fair game. and, you know, racism, anti-semitm, and misogyny were very common in my grandparents' house, and... was just the way it was. >> trump too

. >> salaam is a game where you focus as a player is to take a refugee from a war torn country to hishen you buy water in the game, you actually buy water with somebody in the refugee camp. >> what the game does it provides people engaging in that game an opportunity to contribute actual relief and assistance to refugees. >> better than me. >> his game is going to bring people that are not necessarily a traditional audience for messages about refugees. it's going to bring them into the room, and they are going to be learning about this at a younger age. it's really a game-changer. >> i talk to game developers all of the time. they want to create an incredible experience for people. 99.999% of the time those experiences are it's swords and sorcery and going on this grand adventure, but when you talk to loual, he says let me tell you about how we can help disadvantaged communities and refugees find food and find water. he can use his unique vision literally to change the world. >> my hope is i want other refugees to understand that we're not just here to survive. we're also here to thri

. >> salaam is a high tension running game.a refugee from a war torn country to a peaceful environment. when you buy water in the game, you are actually buying water for somebody in the refugee camp. >> what the game does, it provides people engaging in that game an opportunity to contribute actual relief and assistance to refugees. >> better than me. >> the game is going to bring people that are not necessarily a traditional audience for messages about refugees. it's going to bring them into the room, and they're going to be learning about this at a younger age. it's really a game changer. >> i talk to game developers all the time. they want to create incredible experiences for people. 99% of the time those experiences are it's source and sorcery, it's going on this grand adventure. when you talk to luwall he says, let me tell you about how we can help disadvantaged communities, refugees. find food and water. he can use his unique vision literally to change the world. >> my hope is, we are here to thrive. >> remarkable young m

the president is a prime minister and my friend i'm going to think is a on this english guests salaam aleikum argument live about a cut let me start by conveying the best regards of the u.a.e. people and the leadership and especially of him and. he in the present and everyone gathered here today i'll continue my speech in arabic and i'm sure there will be translation to that. and. when i stepped down now food he didn't slam me. when i say our holy and work says. your peace and from that comes the limited human seek peace words into actions and today you will witness today that the history of the middle east is changed and he's received and willis praed peace worldwide you are and from you comes the search for peace is an innate principle yet principles are effectively realized when they are transformed into action today we already we are already witnessing a change in the heart of the middle east a change that will send hope around the world thank you. letter couldn't have been. lowered to hood. don't trump wealth. be true would. dearly and sheer he was able to tear my compeer was a d